OUR COMPOSERS

 

Tammy Waldrop

 

Composer, Arranger, Clinician, Editor, Church Musician, and “Ring Leader” are all nouns that describe the busy person of Tammy Waldrop, a native of Hobbs, New Mexico. A graduate of Baylor University with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music Theory with an emphasis in Composition, Tammy has been writing and arranging for handbells and choirs since 1980, placing over 375 publications with 18 publishers. She developed the handbell division of WORD MUSIC, where she also served as assistant choral editor, and then went on to establish her own company, RING OUT! PRESS, which is now a part of the Jeffers Publishing Group. She held the position of Handbell Editor for Alfred Publishing from 2005 through January 2012. In May, 2013 she accepted the position as Musical Director for Strikepoint of Texas, the community handbell team based in Kingwood, Texas.

In her spare time Tammy enjoys vegetable and herb gardening, writing children’s books, and traveling to Ireland whenever she can get the chance. She resides in the Houston, Texas area with her husband Emanuel Hollander, son Marc, and three American Eskimo dogs – Gracie, Gretel and Johann Sebastian Bark (aka, Hanzie).